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Excerpt from A Bibliography of the Works of Joseph Hergesheimer
When, first, I learned that it was in your mind to make a bibliography of my books I went to the shelves on which they had been gathered and gazed at them again with an awakened and considerable interest. Only yes terday, a few moments ago, it seemed, there had been but one The Lay Anthony; and now there were ten - or was it eleven? - that many, and more to be collected, in eight years. There, undoubtedly they were, in their vari ous editions; and I was amazed. I hadn't quite realized that so much of what I was went that way fixed, perhaps, for a while short or long, but gone. I had not realized that the secret treachery of time had prevailed against me to such an extent. Eight years, it was true, were not many, but they had been taken - a large bite out of the rosiest cheek of the apple. It was still my profound conviction, it is as I write, that better was to come; that what I had done, written, was hardly more than introductory. But, together with this, I had a faint uneasy consciousness that I was being merely blind ed by the trustfulness and self deception which, perhaps, alone made life endurable. Anyhow, there they were, the ten, or eleven, in paper and cloth and boards - the months, the years, the toil, the failures and the successes.
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